U.S. President Joe Biden met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia last November and had a three-hour talk.

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[Central News Agency] U.S. Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to the Bank of China fell through because a Chinese reconnaissance balloon flew into U.S. airspace. The treacherous tension of espionage being shut down.

U.S. President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia last November. The U.S. and Chinese leaders held a three-hour face-to-face conversation, injecting some warmth into the tense U.S.-China relationship for many years.

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After the Xi-Xi meeting, the US and China agreed to resume cooperation on climate change that had been suspended due to the then US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in August last year. During the visit to China, bilateral relations seemed to melt ice.

In recent years, the anti-China atmosphere in the American political arena has been on the rise. The Biden administration wants to "headwind" and restore the old relationship with Beijing. It is not easy. Dana, suspected of collecting sensitive information.

This move not only reminded Americans of the untrustworthy nature of China, but also caused some people to speculate that Beijing deliberately tried to disown Blinken, forcing the Biden administration to "harden up."

Although the Chinese side hastily defended itself, claiming that the balloon was an "unmanned airship" for civil meteorological research, and that it was strayed into the United States due to the influence of the westerly winds, but the US did not pay the bill, and at the last moment announced the suspension of Blinken's visit to China, and rarely threw out "China's invasion of China." serious accusations of American sovereignty.

As competing rivals, the United States and China compete with each other in the fields of military, technology, and economy. Strictly preventing the Chinese Communist Party from espionage is one of the main tasks of the United States in recent years.

Because of this, the United States is actively besieging the Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei (Huawei), and prohibiting federal employees from using TikTok, an audio-visual sharing platform that has national security concerns.

In July 2020, the then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo even asked China to close the Consulate General in Houston on the grounds of "engaging in espionage".

Although there is a difference in degree between suspending the visit of cabinet officials to China and ordering the closure of the Chinese consulate in the United States, based on the tough rhetoric of the United States and the fierce reaction of Congress, the Biden administration should not be willing to do so in a short period of time (and the political environment does not allow it. ) to mend relations with China, and may be forced to be tougher on China due to the renewed atmosphere of hostility in the country.

In recent years, China has always blamed the United States for the deterioration of US-China relations, accusing Washington of trying to curb Beijing's rise, but this time it can't blame others, nor can it blame the "Western Belt".